Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

Politics makes me sick.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men and I have never wavered from that childhood impression but it has stood steadfastly with me through the busy vast hurrying years.

The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

I've never thought about the end of my career. I've had this growing motto in my life to live day to day - and when you live day to day, it's hard to talk years.

You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

Corruption never has been compulsory when the cities lie at the monsters feet there are left the mountains.

I find personalized search convenient - I read stories on my Facebook feed, my Twitter feed, daily email services, and my iPhone's Flipboard app, and would love to be able to focus my searches on just those particular services.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

I'm dying always.

I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on.

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.

One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn't pay electricity.

In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.